Celtic Pride (1996)

Dan Aykroyd and Daniel Stern are well-cast as a pair of rabid
Celtics fans who kidnap the opposing team's star player (Damon
Wayans) before the last game of a tied championship series. They
make a good, goofy couple: Stern as the gym-teaching, distracted
husband whose wife, once again, wants a divorce; Aykroyd as the
never-dates plumber with a head full of stats and an apartment full
of kitsch. The movie, unfortunately, doesn't give the pair nearly
enough to do. Their gags are too often air balls and the verbal
interplay-- between them and the sour-mouthed Wayans-- doesn't
score the way it should. (To make matters worse, the distressingly
underwritten film is distressingly overscored by composer Basil
Poledouris.) Sports fans should find this funny, but lay people
may want to lay off such a lame lay up. Now, if only someone would
make a movie about rabid *ACC* fans... (Rated "PG"/93 min.)
Grade: C
Copyright 1996 by Michael J. Legeros